hi,

I want to learn about how to use win API's, never used them before , where to start ? ( cant buy books, its pretty hard finding them where i am )

and when are they useful? i mean i thought that you can do everything using the framework classes that you can do using those api's , but its seems theres alot that the framework cant do and api's have to be used directly

i know its hard to answer this stupid question, but it would be nice if anyone could show me the path of understanding and using win api's

sorry for the newbie type of question again, thanks